About Branded Zones

Branded zones (BrandZ) provide
the framework to create containers that contain alternative sets of runtime
behaviors. Brand can refer to a wide range of operating
environments. For example, the non-global zone can emulate the Solaris 8
Operating System, or an operating environment such as Linux.

The brand defines the operating environment that can be installed in
the zone and determines how the system will behave within the zone so that
the software installed in the zone functions correctly. In addition, a zone's
brand is used to identify the correct application type at application launch
time. All branded zone management is performed through extensions to the standard
zones commands. Most administration procedures are identical for all zones.

The following two brands are supported on SPARC machines running the
Solaris 10 8/07 Operating System or later Solaris 10 release: